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  • The problem was we hadn't been able to hold the ball up front, so it came back straightaway.
  • The Inspector, who was also at the meeting, urged anyone finding drugs paraphernalia, including burned tin foil and syringes, to contact the police straightaway.
  • He said people who see someone acting suspiciously near a home should call the police straightaway.
  • If she got going fast enough on the straightaway she could get air and pull a three-sixty when she landed.
  • It's mild enough to eat straightaway, although it will mature and mellow if you leave it for at least a month before eating. Times, Sunday Times
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  • At the beginning, it was pretty wild - there were puddles on the straightaways, so a lot of aquaplaning and wheelspin.
  • A typical 400-meter quadrant track consists of two parallel straightaways connected at the ends by concentric semicircles.
  • Then stir again and serve straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Far better to get it out straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Indianapolis, of course, has the long straightaways, and sharp turns.
  • ‘Do you know, I recognised you straightaway from the photo in the paper,’ one of them said.
  • Use them straightaway or put them in a lidded jar or airtight container along with just a few tablespoons of the syrup. Times, Sunday Times
  • `I'll send a messenger to my lady straightaway, by your leave. A TIME OF WAR
  • Then he went back to something that was more familiar and straightaway you could see the results. Times, Sunday Times
  • Anyone in need of some superior escapism should see it straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • I knew straightaway there were going to be questions. Times, Sunday Times
  • I tried swimming and ballet when I was young but preferred gymnastics and mum could see that straightaway too. The Sun
  • They attacked the driver and he straightaway made a bolt for it.
  • If you are riding down a straightaway at speed with somebody closing in on you, you can literally feel a rearward tug as they move into your slipstream.
  • Serve straightaway with hot toast while you cook the second omelette. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's a lot of room on the exit of Turn 2, especially since they moved the wall out, so you can pick the back straightaway through the doglegs.
  • And straightaway I found the canal a hypnotic companion.
  • Either chill in the fridge or serve straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • People who work for me get mortgages straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Zoe : That's very impressive. She came to heel and sat straightaway.
  • He is not a natural center fielder, and the depth of the balls hit to straightaway center are often the toughest to judge.
  • The true romantic returns your phone calls straightaway and is always punctual. Times, Sunday Times
  • Serve straightaway with hot toast while you cook the second omelette. Times, Sunday Times
  • Half of all hospital admissions are emergencies, and these are treated straightaway.
  • Serve straightaway with hot toast while you cook the second omelette. Times, Sunday Times
  • The voice says it straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bristol's straightaways are long enough for some quick bursts of speed, especially when a driver can take momentum out of a corner.
  • If he had given the photos straightaway to a museum or other institution they might have been filed away for years until someone got around to looking at them.
  • Just the addition of this no-nonsense straightaway runner, should ignite the running game behind an improved behemoth offensive line.
  • There are certain things you know straightaway you can improve on. The Sun
  • Here, high speed in the straightaways and roadability in the extremely rough corners shake the weaklings apart like eggs dropped from an air liner. Modern Mechanix
  • The track has four distinct turns and straightaways, a layout unchanged since the facility opened in 1909.
  • They had to get me out straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Stir well, season to taste and serve straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • We need to start work straightaway.
  • It is quite obvious that if he could get someone better, he would have dumped you straightaway.
  • I knew straightaway there were going to be questions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Straightaway I obtained a rental instrument of heavy 4)plywood and appeared before Wendell Margrave, professor of musical instruction.
  • The track and field events finally get under way today and straightaway two of Britain's best medal hopes are in action.
  • The road test of the TCS based on the target controller for the vehicle driving straightaway was performed on the sand terrain of a sandpit.
  • a straightaway denial
  • People who work for me get mortgages straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • The therapist can not expect to be able to do it easily and accurately straightaway or every time.
  • It's mild enough to eat straightaway, although it will mature and mellow if you leave it for at least a month before eating. Times, Sunday Times
  • found an answer straightaway
  • But Tameside Hospital has opened a clinic which can treat suspected sufferers straightaway.
  • Let me say straightaway, this is not my kind of film. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, it was the distance to straightaway center field - 560 feet - that undoubtedly helped Delahanty collect his four inside-the-park homers.
  • Stir well, season to taste and serve straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • He blasted down the longest straightaway, reaching a speed of about 200 miles per hour.
  • Anybody with an ear in the real world would surely have known straightaway that such tales are an urban myth. Times, Sunday Times
  • It should be said straightaway that they have succeeded admirably in attaining their goal.
  • It will be crucial to have a basic understanding of how to tweak car components for the best possible results during a race, tweaking for straightaways, hills, corners, and so forth.
  • He knew how to get back into things straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • That may mean the non-dom levy could not be a policy for a government, at least not straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Let me say straightaway, this is not my kind of film. Times, Sunday Times
  • Anyone who finds the bag or contents is also urged to contact Swindon police straightaway.
  • The drivers' heart rates were slow and steady in the straightaways and increased markedly in the turns due to stress.
  • The nice thing about it is that it can be eaten straightaway, or kept and sliced up cold with a tomato sauce, or a nice lemon mayonnaise and salad.
  • There are certain things you know straightaway you can improve on. The Sun
  • Use them straightaway or put them in a lidded jar or airtight container along with just a few tablespoons of the syrup. Times, Sunday Times
  • I could see straightaway how positive and committed he was to the team. The Sun
  • You know straightaway if it is going to be a good one or not. The Sun
  • Some people would go for all-around straightaway speed and they couldn't get through the corners.
  • As he is definitely among the top three cricketers India has ever produced, he will command the respect of the boys straightaway.
  • The 1.3-litre engine will put off a certain section of people straightaway.
  • You get to speak to an adviser straightaway after that and don't have to press buttons on your telephone keypad.
  • Alley hit a sinking line drive to straightaway center field that got by Day, who dived to make a sprawling catch but came up short.
  • Anyone in need of some superior escapism should see it straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Serve straightaway with hot toast while you cook the second omelette. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then he went back to something that was more familiar and straightaway you could see the results. Times, Sunday Times
  • But on short tracks with brief straightaways, the goal is "downforce": air pressing the car down for a better grip. What A Rush
  • I'm aware that it takes time for a defence to learn to play together but we need results straightaway.
  • It was the longest ever hole-in-one achieved on a straightaway golf hole.
  • Old Nubbins was up ahead, as usual, but behaving himself for once, and there was dour old Hosford, and the half-miler Benny Vaughn, and tough little A. W. Smith from Tenille, Georgia, and Mark Burr from Indiana, all running in a group while Benny did one of his commentator voice-overs, pretending they were in the final straightaway of some fantasy Olympic finals. Again to Carthage
  • When she heard a programme on the radio about the service she volunteered straightaway.
  • The philosopher did not accept these invitations straightaway.
  • Chipper's second shot came on a change that Francis left just a little too high, and Jones took it to straightaway center.
  • If there is a problem, you will know straightaway because you will see it on my face. Times, Sunday Times
  • Didn't go on honeymoon straightaway, of course. Times, Sunday Times
  • I could see straightaway how positive and committed he was to the team. The Sun
  • Have you truly read it, or did you run straightaway to the dogeared pages?
  • If I can't get started, I get irritated, but if I geddit straightaway, like here, the remainder gives little satisfaction. Cryptic crossword No 25,223
  • We had no trouble coming to quick stops on dry or snow-covered surfaces, over straightaways or around corners.
  • If you check into a hotel with it, you normally get an upgrade straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • I tried swimming and ballet when I was young but preferred gymnastics and mum could see that straightaway too. The Sun
  • Serve straightaway with a crunchy green salad on the side, if you wish. Times, Sunday Times
  • Kate would break out in a light sweat straightaway.
  • Dr Wilson said that had Mr Collins been treated by medical staff straightaway he could still be alive today.
  • It is better to stop troublemakers straightaway than to let their behaviour influence the rest of the crowd towards violence or vandalism. Times, Sunday Times
  • If he had given the photos straightaway to a museum or other institution they might have been filed away for years until someone got around to looking at them.
  • Child protection officers will be under instructions to report any allegations straightaway to Mr Morris and to appropriate authorities such as police and social services.
  • It's got relatively long straightaways but very sweeping corners.
  • With its hairpin turns and limited straightaways, Martinsville is a track where an accident is always right around the corner.
  • Cheerful customers can then walk in and fire up their laptops straightaway, without fuss.
  • Without indicating here the intermediate stages which I passed through, let us say straightaway that, by observing in the microscope in bright light a small horizontal lamina of a given soapy water (approximately 5 per cent pure alkali oleate), I have seen the discontinuities multiplying of which the black spots were the first example. Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture
  • The problem was we hadn't been able to hold the ball up front, so it came back straightaway.
  • They considered waiting a year to marry but decided they wanted to get married straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fourth hole on the South nine actually has two greens - one that makes it play as a straightaway par 4, and another that turns it into a dogleg right.
  • Far better to get it out straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's plenty of room for four-wide [racing] on the back straightaway, but there's not room for it once you get to the corner.
  • They considered waiting a year to marry but decided they wanted to get married straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • They had to get me out straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a challenging track; you're never on a straightaway.
  • He disappeared down the straightaway stretch before I could realize what was happening.
  • I should have gone off straightaway and found a ditch to drive it into. Times, Sunday Times
  • You'll see the difference straightaway, and it really counts when you are wheeling uphill. Times, Sunday Times
  • Serve straightaway with hot toast while you cook the second omelette. Times, Sunday Times
  • I should have gone off straightaway and found a ditch to drive it into. Times, Sunday Times
  • We found the fuse box using a torch and reset the mains straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Use them straightaway or put them in a lidded jar or airtight container along with just a few tablespoons of the syrup. Times, Sunday Times
  • Straightaway, one feels Schubert's love of the theatre from the solemn opening measures, the sforzando downbeat setting in motion curving string lines to explore different key textures, visionary and remote for their period.
  • Then stir again and serve straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • You know straightaway if it is going to be a good one or not. The Sun
  • Serve straightaway with a crunchy green salad on the side, if you wish. Times, Sunday Times
  • Zoe : That's very impressive. She came to heel and sat straightaway.
  • Moms are using tech in their routine day life: wash-machine, aspirator, hoven, micro-onde … are no more straightaway tools, see the howto-documentation! Let’s Stop Confusing Moms With Technology-Fearing Simpletons
  • I caught it really well and knew it was going in straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Tuta circuit looked downright sketchy, with dirt-strewn corners and sharp speed bumps on the straightaway into town.
  • The police said straightaway, without investigation, that the accident was unavoidable.
  • He had joined the team late and straightaway plunged into competition without quite getting acclimatised to the extreme weather conditions or showing concern for fitness.
  • Either chill in the fridge or serve straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Anyway, we didn't get back until after three that afternoon and straightaway I checked with Penman about the Meg situation.
  • You'll see the difference straightaway, and it really counts when you are wheeling uphill. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you check into a hotel with it, you normally get an upgrade straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • For once in a lifetime, afternoon traffic in Tijuana is unsnarled and ERRE spurs his Chevy Silverado through the Zona Rio roundabouts, past the giant statue of Father Kino and the utopian sphere of the Cultural Center, until we reach the Avenida Internacional, the long straightaway next to the corrugated steel futility of the border wall. Mike Davis: A Day Without Tourists
  • The little karts reach speeds of more than 65 miles per hour on the straightaways.
  • Anybody with an ear in the real world would surely have known straightaway that such tales are an urban myth. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'll ask them to send someone out straightaway to fix the car.
  • Save the line-jumping and position-swapping for straightaways.
  • We found the fuse box using a torch and reset the mains straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cars lose much more speed in the corners, then accelerate down the straightaways.
  • Michael is one of the fastest straightaway runners in the league, and defenses must change the way they play when he's in the game.
  • The course is short at 6,157 yards and fairly flat with straightaway holes.
  • If there is a problem, you will know straightaway because you will see it on my face. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cars typically run well there because their horsepower helps so much down the three long straightaways.
  • Against the darkness the living stood out in sharp relief: Wynne and Zoo with their rainbow-colored auras, methodically reducing the Jeep and its lone Shadowling occupant to scraps; Nansee in deific white making the aged truck move like a sportscar on a straightaway; a yellow-tinged Shadowling fighting a muddy-colored silhouette that Kira belatedly recognized as Khefar. Shadow Chase
  • Linda took the courageous decision to waive her anonymity in the hope of encouraging other victims of sexual and physical abuse to report their situations to the police straightaway.
  • Because of the long straightaways, the cars carry a lot of speed into the flat and sharp turns, which is where you'll see a lot of wrecks.
  • A few lucky people become friends straightaway, soon after they meet or get introduced to each other.
  • Moms are using tech in their routine day life: wash-machine, aspirator, hoven, micro-onde … are no more straightaway tools, see the howto-documentation! Let’s Stop Confusing Moms With Technology-Fearing Simpletons
  • I'll ask them to send someone out straightaway to fix the car.
  • Drivers can hold the throttle wide open on the straightaways at both tracks, but when the cars get into the corners, distinct characteristics emerge.
  • Fixed front wheel designs are perfect for serious joggers because they require very little effort to steer on long straightaways.
  • Didn't go on honeymoon straightaway, of course. Times, Sunday Times
  • I run and bicycle long distances a lot and I commonly traverse straightaways that clearly appear to be slightly uphill.
  • Use them straightaway or put them in a lidded jar or airtight container along with just a few tablespoons of the syrup. Times, Sunday Times
  • The true romantic returns your phone calls straightaway and is always punctual. Times, Sunday Times
  • I caught it really well and knew it was going in straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • The voice says it straightaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • They attacked the driver and he straightaway made a bolt for it.

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